Joan Jett has nothing but high praise for Kristen Stewart’s depiction of the rocker in “The Runaways.”
“[Kristen] makes me very proud, because she’s a very real person, she’s really authentic, she’s dedicated,” Jett told Hitfix during a roundtable for the movie at the Sundance Film Festival. “She took it really seriously. It wasn’t a gig for her: ‘I’m doing this movie, I‘ve got something else down the road.’ She cut off her hair. She immersed herself, not only in the music, but in the story.”
Jett went so far as to give Stewart a tape of Jett talking when she was 14 so Stewart could nail her mid-Atlantic accent. Ultimately, the two women, who are now fast friends, realized they had plenty of similarities. “Just in real life, we’re a lot alike,” Jett said. “If you were to see the two of us sitting around, just the way we move in space is pretty much a lot alike, we shake our legs, put our hands…it was very similar.”
Jett, who serves as an executive producer on the film, had nothing to do with the casting of Stewart or Dakota Fanning as band mate/lead singer Cherie Currie, but she made one very specific request. “All I said to them about the casting was it would be really great if you could get teenagers because I think it makes a difference, you know, between even playing, if you’re 21 or 22. I know it’s still young and it’s still close, but there’s a little bit of a difference, that teenage energy, that was my only suggestion.”
As far as the accuracy of the movie, which is a fairly dark portrayal of the Runaways’ very quick rise and fall, Jett says she realized early on “that this was not a biopic… It’s basically a parallel story line that uses a lot of the Runaways’ factual stuff, but you know, there are embellishments.”
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